Greta Gerwig Jokes She Worries She’ll ‘Wake Up’ and Find Out the Barbie Praise ‘Was a Dream’

Is Greta Gerwig living a Barbie dream?

On Thursday, Gerwig, 40, and she Barbie co-writer and real-life partner Noah Baumbach appeared at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City for a Q&A moderated by writer Tony Kushner.

“This definitely looks like a moment where I might wake up and think, ‘No, it was a dream,'” Gerwig said after Kushner opened the discussion with a call Barbie masterpiece.”

“This is amazing and I can’t tell you how much it means that you did it,” she added, noting that Kushner recently sent her and Baumbach, 54, an email praising their work on the Margot Robbie film that dominated the box office this summer. .

“Noah was reading [the email] to me out loud and I said, ‘frame, frame the computer,'” she added of the message from Kushner, the writer behind Angels in America, Lincoln and The Fabelmans.

While Baumbach reiterated his thoughts from another recent Q&A that he was initially unsure whether to take on the project, he said Thursday that he ended up pushing for Gerwig to direct the film herself after they finish work on Barbiescenario.

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Tony Kushner, Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach November 2, 2023

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“There was a moment where I said, ‘You have to direct it,’ because we have to protect it. Because when we started really enjoying [writing the movie]and it was really like we were totally pissed off, we were totally pissed off,” Baumbach said. “We were, like a lot of us [were] there was this isolation in the pandemic, so it kind of gave us this way of connecting to a kind of future world where we were hoping that movies would come back and we’d all go back to the cinema.”

Gerwig and Baumbach made Barbiethe scenario during the first year of the pandemic; Gerwig was eventually named the film’s director in July 2021. The pair said that writing the film during an uncertain time in the film industry helped them craft the film’s bold approach to Mattel’s iconic toy brand.

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Tony Kushner, Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach November 2, 2023

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“We wrote it when no one was going to the movies and there were no movies and no one was making movies,” Gerwig recalled.

“There was also a feeling of ‘There are no films, nobody is filming anything.’ So there was kind of a doom and gloom in the way we were doing it. Then when we were doing it, we were like, ‘We love this – and also, definitely no one is ever going to let us do this.’ ”

“It also gave us a certain level of protection and fearlessness because I think at one point we said, ‘Let’s write the best script that no one can ever do or no one will ever let us do,'” added Gerwig, who is next working on And Chronicles of Narnia adjustment.

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Greta Gerwig November 2, 2023

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Barbie has become the highest-grossing film of 2023 so far, earning $1.4 billion globally since its July release, according to Box Office Mojo.

To kick off awards season, Ryan Gosling received a nomination for his supporting role as Ken at the upcoming Gotham Awards.

“I think there’s a protection in that kind of improbability of the whole thing that it gives you cover to do things that you wouldn’t do if you thought it was actually going to happen,” Gerwig said of the film’s surprise success.

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